Support Worker x2

Are you passionate about making a difference to our citizens and the district that they reside in? Then, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team.

About the Role

• Intimate personal care: showering/bathing, dressing or undressing, assisting with toileting
• Administering medication and support with meal preparation to enable individuals to get the most from their daily life
• Understanding the importance of social inclusion, promoting independence and enabling positive life choices
• Supporting people with a learning disability in their own homes and enabling them to live as independent a life as possible, following the values and principles contained in “Valuing People”
• Enabling men and women with learning disabilities to have more control over their lives through person-centred approaches, which maximise community inclusion and participation and are responsive to the needs and wishes of the individual
• Supporting tenants with their finances, including ensuring that commitments are met and all welfare benefits to which they are entitled, including Housing Benefit, are claimed
• Encouraging tenants to undertake daily living skills including cooking, and other household tasks, taking account of individual choice, cultural backgrounds, and religious beliefs
• Providing practical, personal and emotional support, including intimate personal care, to enable service users to meet their assessed need by maintaining and promoting their health, physical and mental well-being and social development
• Developing, with tenants, families, and other professionals as appropriate, care plans, support plans and risk assessments to enable people to maintain a quality of life in line with their person-centred plans

Key Responsibilities

• Personal care
• Emotional support
• Promoting independence
• Health and wellbeing monitoring
• Safeguarding
• Following care/support plans
• Maintaining professional standards

What will be expected from me?

• Empathy and patience
• Good communication skills
• Reliability and responsibility
• Respect for dignity and privacy

Essential Requirements

• Knowledge of current legislation, guidance and value base, e.g. Valuing People, in the field of learning disabilities
• Mobility to carry out the physical tasks within the job
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in written form, using the English language; able to produce accurate, factual, legible and clear reports
• Ability to work as a team member and on own
• Understanding of and ability to demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and diversity
• Ability to work with people with a learning disability to promote independence
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Previous experience of caring
• Ability to implement and monitor a high-quality service delivery

  What can I expect?

  • A competitive salary
  • Generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy up to 10 extra days of annual leave
  • Hybrid working (subject to role suitability)
  • Access to high-quality training programmes to advance your career to the next level
  • Support for staff wellbeing, good work‑life balance and supportive leadership
  • Discounted and subsidised public transport (Arriva Bus Annual Travel Ticket, Northern Trains Limited (NTL), MetroCard)
  • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and a Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) scheme providing a tax efficient way to increase our pension
  • Great range of benefits including an Employee Assistant Programme, discounted membership to leisure facilities with a free 12‑weeks exercise programme, discounts for a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure providers, a cycle‑to‑work scheme, and many more

  Company: Wakefield Council

  Salary: Grade 6 SCP 12 £16,617.76 – SCP 18 £18,325.55 pro rata

  Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire

  Sector: Health and Social Care

  Job Role: Support Worker

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